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Galerie Krinzinger - Contemporary Art Gallery Galerie Krinzinger (Instagram: ) was founded in 1971 by art-historian Dr. Ursula Krinzinger.

Since then, she has organized at least 500 exhibitions of national and international artists, mounting solo, group and thematic shows. The main interest and source of the gallery program stems, on the one hand, from international performance and body related art (Marina Abramovic since 1975, Chris Burden since 1992), on the other hand, from Viennese actionism (Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Günter Brus, He

rmann Nitsch, Otto Muehl since 1975). Additionally, the gallery has been working with national and international artists such as Jonathan Meese, Gavin Turk, Eva Schlegel, Mark Wallinger, Thomas Zipp and others for over forty-five years. The latest additions to the gallery program result from Ursula Krinzinger’s research in Asia and the Middle East (Kader Attia, Waqas Khan, Maha Malluh, Sudarshan Shetty, Zhang Ding). This thematic focus has been consequently present since 12 years. Besides the gallery program, Ursula Krinzinger organizes and curates exhibitions in various spaces outside the gallery, including the gallery's second space: Krinzinger Schottenfeld, which was founded in 2002 as Krinzinger Projekte. Internationally orientated, group and topic exhibitions define the program, which quickly earned an international reputation. Housed in a separate building, Krinzinger Schottenfeld joins Galerie Krinzinger in inviting young national and international artists to take part in the gallery’s artist-in-residence program, which currently includes destinations in Austria, Croatia, Hungary and Sri Lanka. For more than forty-five years, Galerie Krinzinger has regularly participated in the world's most important art fairs, among them: Art Basel, Arco Madrid, The Armory Show New York, Art Dubai, FIAC, Frieze London, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Düsseldorf, Art Basel Miami.

03/06/2026

Introducing Basel Exclusive: a new initiative at ’s flagship show.

We invite you to discover an exceptional artwork, only to be unveiled in person at the fair.

Join us at our booth L19!

Art Basel in Basel
VIP days: June 16-17
Public days: June 18-21
Messeplatz, Basel

29/05/2026

We are pleased to inform you of the current exhibition „Hermann Nitsch. 1960-1965“ at on view until July 5, 2026.

Born on August 29, 1936, in Vienna, Hermann Nitsch developed his early artistic ideas in response to his childhood experiences during World War II. Deeply influenced by the intensity of these memories, he began exploring religious rituals and symbolic forms of expression in the 1950s.

Nitsch became a key member of the Vienna Actionists, alongside Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. Each artist pursued a radical and confrontational approach to art, challenging social norms and the boundaries of artistic practice.

During this early period, Nitsch began developing his theatrical concepts and experimented with pouring predominantly red paint onto canvases, works he referred to as Schüttbilder. These paintings became an essential component of his broader action theatre.

„I understood this painting, in which the audience were also drawn in, as a litany-like, performative sequence expressed through painting within my theatre. My action painting is the visual grammar of my action theatre on a canvas.“ (1964)

1. Hermann Nitsch „Schüttstein“. 1984-91. Lithography on paper. 14/40. 132 x 80cm.
2. Hermann Nitsch „Untitled (5)“. 2019. Terragraph on canvas. 44/48. 89 x 71cm.
3. Hermann Nitsch „o.T. (Jahn Mappe II)“. 1984-1989. Etching. Probedruck. 70 x 58cm.

22/05/2026

For this year’s edition of .at, we are delighted to announce our collaboration with !

CHUS MARTÍNEZ is a curator, writer, and academic with a background in philosophy and art history. She is Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW and Associate Curator at TBA21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary) in Madrid.

Martínez is a board member of CIMAM and serves on advisory boards including Castello di Rivoli and the Deutsches Historisches Museum. Former roles include Chief Curator at El Museo del Barrio, Head of Department at dOCUMENTA (13), Chief Curator at MACBA, and Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. She is known for a critical and experimental curatorial practice, and for influential publications and exhibitions on art, ecology, and feminist thought, approaching art as a site of knowledge production and transformation.

In 2025, she served as Artistic Director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts.

She has also curated the Pavilion of Denmark — Things to Come — at the current 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia with Maja Malou Lyse. Among her most recent exhibitions are A Velvet Ant, a Flower and a Bird at the Potter Museum of Art and Pedagogies of War. Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk by TBA21 at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Under the theme LOVE, the festival will open in Vienna from Sep 11–13 and continue until Oct 17, 2026.

Find out more about this year’s theme, participating galleries, and curators at curatedby.at.

Photo: Gina Folly

19/05/2026

Wir freuen uns, Sie auf folgende Veranstaltungen hinweisen zu dürfen:

DIE SAMMLUNG ALS AUSSTELLUNG

Eröffnung: 20. Mai, 19 – 22 Uhr, Schottenfeldgasse 45, 1070 Wien

Podiumsdiskussion zur Zukunft des Sammelns: 21. Mai, 19 Uhr

Finissage: 29. Mai 18 – 22 Uhr

Öffnungszeiten: Mo – Fr, 10 – 18 Uhr

Was in Österreich an Kunst gesammelt wird, bleibt oft im Verborgenen. Ab Mai wird sich dies ändern: 14 österreichische Sammlerinnen zeitgenössischer Kunst treten mit ihren Sammlungen erstmals gemeinsam an die Öffentlichkeit. Vom 20. bis 29. Mai 2026 geben sie in der Schau „Die Sammlung als Ausstellung“ in den Räumen der Galerie KRINZINGER SCHOTTENFELD Einblick in einen Teil ihrer Sammlungen. Gezeigt werden einerseits Arbeiten international renommierter Künstlerinnen (wie Christian Eisenberger, Karl Ikade, Asger Jorn, Martha Jungwirth, Elke Silvia Krystufek, Hermann Nitsch, Arnulf Rainer u.v.a.). Andererseits präsentieren sie Werke wieder neu zu entdeckender Künstler:innen (wie Marcel Houf, Michael Vonbank oder Adam Wiener etc.) sowie Arbeiten von Newcomer:innen (wie Violetta Ehnsperg, Arno Jungreithmair, Amiko Kalandadze, Ol’ga Pastéková, Oksana Zmiyevska und viele weitere).

Mehr als 200 Werke aus den 14 Sammlungen treten erstmals in einen gemeinsamen Dialog. Die Ausstellung versteht sich weniger als Überblick über die einzelnen Sammlungen, sondern vielmehr als Statement darüber, wie vielschichtig und unterschiedlich Gegenwartskunst heute gesammelt, gelesen und gelebt wird.

Veranstaltet wird die Ausstellung vom neu gegründeten Verein „ACAC - Austrian Contemporary Art Collectors“, der aus einer privaten Initiative rund um die Sammler Volker Füssel und Andreas Schlichtner hervorgegangen ist. Die Initiative hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, Sammlerinnen zu vernetzen und zeitgenössische Kunst und Künstlerinnen durch ihre Sammler- und Ausstellungstätigkeit zu fördern. Mittlerweile zählt die Initiative rund 40 private Sammlerinnen mit insgesamt rund 30.000 nationalen und internationalen Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst.

ACAC - Austrian Contemporary Art Collector
Verein zur Förderung zeitgenössischer Kunst und Künstler:innen

Mehr Infos unter www.coartaustria.at

19/05/2026

A.rtificial I.ntrospection O.

with works by

WALTER PICHLER
RUDOLF POLANSZKY

at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark
Burgring 2, 8010 Graz

Opening May 19, 2026 6 – 9 PM
Duration: May 20 – September 6, 2026

The exhibition A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. (A.I.O.) explores questions of thought, perception, and subjectivity at the intersection of introspection, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence.
Its point of departure is the work of the Austrian writer, cognitive psychologist, and cybernetician Oswald Wiener (1935 - 2021), whose genuine thinking since the 1950s critically navigated between these fields while systematically resisting institutional appropriation.

Curators: Sandro Droschl with Franca Zitta

Curatorial consultation, Estate of Oswald Wiener: Thomas Eder, Thomas Raab

Cooperation: Franz Nabl Institute for Literary Research / Literaturhaus Graz: Klaus Kastberger, Daniela Bartens

Credit: Walter Pichler ‚TV-Helm (Tragbares Wohnzimmer/Portable living Room)‘, 1967/2022, Silver Gelatine Print, 116 x 112 cm, Ed. 5 + 2 AP. Courtesy Galerie Krinzinger and Walter Pichler, © Estate Walter Pichler.

13/05/2026

Among the central materials of Rudolf Polanszky’s work are plexiglass, metal, mirror film, synthetic resin, wire, and foam. In the process of artistic transformation, these materials are systematically stripped of their original functionality and purpose and placed in new contexts.

Polansky’s working method is based on a non-linear, process-oriented approach that he himself describes as „ad-hoc synthesis“: a process of spontaneously yet structurally assembling heterogeneous materials and found forms.

See the show Rudolf Polanszky „Daidalon“ at Galerie Krinzinger Main Gallery until June 25, 2026.

Opening hours: Tue - Fr 12 - 6PM, Sat 11AM - 4PM

08/05/2026

Last days:

Artist in Residence 2025
Hungary / Croatia / Vienna / Sri Lanka

Showing works by Carlos Amorales, Luan Bajraktari, Hanna Besenhard, Đanino Božić, Selva de Carvalho, Inci Furni, Lorenz Helfer, Panni Marosi, Zoe Miloš, Rafaela Pröll, Christoph Raitmayr, Dora Ramljak, Martin Sommer

Come by to see the show until May 13, 2026!

At Krinzinger Schottenfeld (Schottenfeldgasse 45, 1070 Vienna)

Opening hours: Tue - Fr 12 - 6PM, Sat 11AM - 2PM

Credits: Courtesy Galerie Krinzinger and the artists / Photo 2026 Tamara Rametsteiner.

05/05/2026

Currently on view at Galerie Krinzinger (Seilerstätte 16, 1010 Vienna):

RUDOLF POLANSZKY
Daidalon

On show until June 25, 2026

Since the mid. 1970s, Rudolf Polanszky has been developing a multifaceted, cross-media body of work that encompasses conceptual film, video, and photographic works as well as drawings, paintings, sculptural objects, and assemblages. A defining feature of his work is the deliberate yet methodical incorporation of chance.

The exhibition brings together sculptures, assemblages, and paintings from recent years, as well as video works dating back to the 1970s.

Credits: Installation view Rudolf Polanszky „Daidalon“. Courtesy Galerie Krinzinger and the artist / Photo 2026 Carmen Alber.

05/05/2026

We are delighted to announce the following exhibition:

MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ
Transforming Energy

curated by Shai Baitel

Internationally acclaimed artist Marina Abramović will make history in 2026 as the first living woman artist to be honored with a major exhibition at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice. Marina Abramović: Transforming Energy, presented during the 61st Venice Biennale Arte, will open on May 6, 2026 and run until October 19, 2026. The exhibition marks the artist’s 80th birthday and establishes a profound dialogue between her pioneering performance art and the Renaissance masterpieces that have shaped the cultural identity of Venice. Curated by Shai Baitel, Artistic Director of the Modern Art Museum (MAM) Shanghai, in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition unfolds across both the museum’s permanent collection galleries and its temporary exhibition spaces — a first in the institution’s history — embedding Abramović’s practice within the very heart of Venetian patrimony.

Location: Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia (Calle della Ca**tà, 1050, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy)

Duration: May 6 - October 19, 2026

Credit:
1. ©Marco Anelli, 2025
2. ©Yu Jieyu
3. ©Yu Jieyu

28/04/2026

We are happy to inform you about the following solo exhibition:

Martin Sommer
E.M.S.B.W.J.

Exhibition Opening: May 1, 2026, 6-9 PM

Duration: May 2-23, 2026

Location: WolffJordan (Lindenstraße 35, 10969 Berlin)

Adresse

Seilerstätte 16
Vienna
1010

Öffnungszeiten

Dienstag	12:00 - 18:00
Mittwoch	12:00 - 18:00
Donnerstag	12:00 - 18:00
Freitag	12:00 - 18:00
Samstag	11:00 - 16:00

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+43 1 5133006

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